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Pyrargyrite from
Wheal Brothers (Wheal Duchy), East Cornwall Silver Mines (St Vincent Great Consols; incl. Wheal Emily; Wheal Georgiana; Wheal Mercer), Wheal Langford (New Wheal Langford; Baring and Langford Mine), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrargyrite
Formula:Ag3SbS3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrargyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wheal Brothers (Wheal Duchy), East Cornwall Silver Mines (St Vincent Great Consols; incl. Wheal Emily; Wheal Georgiana; Wheal Mercer), Wheal Langford (New Wheal Langford; Baring and Langford Mine), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:8962
Long-form Identifier:1:3:8962:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrargyrite
0.7km (0.5 miles) ⓘWheal Fortune (Wheal Newton and Queen; South Harrowbarrow Mine; incl. Wheal Newton (Wheal Barnard); Wheal Queen), Harrowbarrow Mine (Harrowbeer Mine; Wheal Goodluck; East Wheal Brothers), Harrowbarrow & Prince of Wales Mines (Calstock United Tin and Copper Mines), Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK
4.0km (2.5 miles) ⓘHolmbush Mine, Callington United Mines (incl. Emmens United Mines), Stokeclimsland, Cornwall, England, UK
10.1km (6.3 miles) ⓘWheal Ludcott, Wrey and Ludcott United Mines, St Ive, Cornwall, England, UK
16.4km (10.2 miles) ⓘWheal Betsy (North Wheal Friendship; Prince Arthur Consols), Mary Tavy, West Devon, Devon, England, UK
20.5km (12.7 miles) ⓘHerodsfoot Mine (North Herodsfoot Mine), Lanreath, Cornwall, England, UK
28.6km (17.8 miles) ⓘSilver Vein Mine (Beacon Hill Mine; Wheal Fortescue), Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, UK
62.4km (38.8 miles) ⓘMount Mine (Perran Iron Mine; Trebisken and Mount Mine), Perran Iron Lode (Great Perran Iron Lode), Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, UK
70.4km (43.8 miles) ⓘWheal Maid Decline, Gwennap, Cornwall, England, UK
78.6km (48.9 miles) ⓘDolcoath Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
81.7km (50.8 miles) ⓘNorth Dolcoath Mine, Barripper, Camborne, Cornwall, England, UK
References
Phillips, William (1823) An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy (3rd ed.)
Hogg, Thomas (1825) A Manual of Mineralogy - In which is shown how much Cornwall contributes to the illustration of the science. W. Polybank High Cross, Truro.
Henwood, William Jory (1843) On the Metalliferous Deposits of Cornwall and Devon. Transactions of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, 5. 1-386
Hall, Townshend M. (1868) The Mineralogist's Directory: or, a guide to the Principal Mineral Localities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Edward Stanford.
Rudler, F. W. (1905) A Handbook to a Collection of the Minerals of the British Isles - Mostly selected from the Ludlam Collection, in the Museum of Practical Geology. 253pp.
 
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